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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a…

Our Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) guides, which provide practical advice and explainers for how to deal with government and corporate surveillance,…

EFF’s attorneys, activists, and technologists don’t just do the hard, endless work of defending our digital civil liberties — they…

It’s no secret that digital surveillance and other tech-enabled oppressions are acute dangers for liberation movement workers. The rising tides…

Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025. Though the concept has been around since 2018, this…

Defending encryption has long been a bedrock of our work. Without encryption, it’s impossible to have private conversations or private…

In 2025, elected officials across the country began treating surveillance technology purchases differently: not as inevitable administrative procurements handled by…

This year, you may have heard EFF sounding off about our civil liberties on NPR, BBC Radio, or any number of…

A functioning patent system depends on one basic principle: bad patents must be challengeable. In 2025, that principle was repeatedly…

State legislatures—from Olympia, WA, to Honolulu, HI, to Tallahassee, FL, and everywhere in between—kept EFF’s state legislative team busy throughout…

Each December we take a moment to publish a series of blog posts that look back at the things we’ve…